He added the plans, which include repurposing wards one, four and five at Furness General Hospital, were being carried out without consultation with residents.

Plans say the site is an ‘unused piece’ of land within Furness General Hospital which previously housed a temporary theatre to support the hospital until it was demolished in 2018.

Plans for the unit were approved today at the trust’s latest board meeting and follow a recommendation in the Kirkup review to modernise maternity facilities. Trust chief executive Jackie Daniel noted ...

Plans have been released for a new hospital diagnostic centre. Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria, has submitted the plans to Westmorland and Furness Council.

Patients and staff were evacuated from a mental health unit at a hospital in Cumbria after a water pipe burst. The third floor of the Dane Garth site at Furness General Hospital in Barrow became ...

West Midlands-based Wellman Robey has recently supplied two mid-range (5,440kg/h) steam-raising boilers to the Furness General Hospital at Barrow in Furness. The boilers are part of a £1million ...

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has dropped plans to temporarily shut maternity and neonatal services in Furness after commissioners intervened to resolve its staffing crisis. The troubled ...

Furness General: Cumbria hospital 'hides' maternity death rate At least 15 newborn babies and three mothers have died in less than a decade at a Cumbria hospital where detectives are now ...

Between 2004 and 2012, major failures in care at Furness General Hospital led to the deaths of three mothers and six babies, as well as ten stillbirths, resulting in one of the biggest NHS patient ...

Furness General Hospital (FGH), in Barrow, Cumbria, was slammed for shocking failures in a bombshell report that became known as the Morecambe Bay scandal back in March 2015.

Plans have been released for a new hospital diagnostic centre. Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria, has submitted the plans to Westmorland and Furness Council.